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[Naryar]

Weremouse

Now you will know why you fear the night.

[RocheLimit]

Get attacked by three squads of goblins, order my front gate closed.

Dwarf pulls lever, does nothing.  I check the bridge, no mechanism.

Quickly order the lever to be linked to the bridge.

Goblins are halfway here.

Lever and bridge are connected in time.  Order the lever to be pulled twice.

Bridge retracts.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Started a new fort in a pretty nice embark place
6 useful and 10 point trained dwarves and a 4 point trained miner
Some embark metal and plenty of food and 3 war dogs for protection

Embark arrives and fisherbegins fishing as miner mines
Fisher gets dragged in by an alligator and is torn apart. Then the alligator swims out onto land and two war dogs and 5 dwarves try fighting it and all are killed

Now my miner is left alone with one war dog pal, digging a for, waiting for new friends

[GuesssWho]

One of my seven got killed by a fucking deer before the first caravan came oO

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

One of my seven got killed by a fucking deer before the first caravan came oO

At least 6 of them didn't die by alligator the first week
I shit you not

[GuesssWho]

I have also discovered that wild animals never attack each other. Which would be less annoying if they at least ignored each other, but I currently have a giant toad and a cave croc awkwardly dancing around each other like nerds at prom.

[bigjaredmonkey]

Protip: marksdwarves aren't as good as you would think in killing rocs, even if you have a whole squad of them.
The entire squad of marksdwarves got slaughtered.

( thought it may do with the fact they were all novice marksdwarves )

[Urist Tilaturist]

I have also discovered that wild animals never attack each other. Which would be less annoying if they at least ignored each other, but I currently have a giant toad and a cave croc awkwardly dancing around each other like nerds at prom.

That is daft and weird; I have certainly seen forgotten beasts fight before.

[TheFlame52]

That is daft and weird; I have certainly seen forgotten beasts fight before.

Me too, FB fights are epic.

[Obsidianos]

In my latest fortress game i had this river under which i had dug out my farms etc.
At some point, necessity prompted me to construct a bridge to gain access to the trees from the other side and so i did,
caution also prompted me to construct a pair of walls on either side of the bridge,
since a little further on was a 7z drop waterfall
and didn't want any unfortunate dwafs jumping scared in the water to end up dead.

Of course and as you might imagine i 'd forgotten that:
-->One doesn't simply BUILD a wall on the side of his bridge!
Cause if there is not another piece of wall already mounted near a shoreline, the block will just fall in the water...
What i wouldn't imagine is that the boulder after its initial splash of water along with the ever ominous warning sound of the cave in,
would punch a hole in the river bed, as well as the floor under that... until it found on the -3rd floor some resistance,
causing the redirection of part of the river through my fort
and me in sheer horror and desperation trying to figure out how on earth am i suppose to fix that!

[abysmalduke]

By the thousand available fancy legendaries, Armok forbid. Go ahead you McGeniuspants, I dare you. I double dare you rockhumper.

[TheFlame52]

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By the thousand available fancy legendaries, Armok forbid. Go ahead you McGeniuspants, I dare you. I double dare you rockhumper.

What am I looking at here?

[abysmalduke]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

By the thousand available fancy legendaries, Armok forbid. Go ahead you McGeniuspants, I dare you. I double dare you rockhumper.

What am I looking at here?

A dwarf about channel out the very last bearing floor of the two tiles he is standing on. Over a pit which at this point was 5 Z-levels down to the bottom.

[Uzu Bash]

I embarked in a valley with a river right through the center, for water supply and an extra defensive barrier. I've been busily fortifying the side I landed on, with a drawbridge across the river for potential traders and immigrants. The first wave came from the other side and ignored the bridge, walking right across the water, which I dismissed after seeing that they all had swimming skill. I dug dry moats up to each side of the river, preparing to channel the water under my mountain to use for a pump stack later. I got my drawbridges ready, floodgates on the inside, and sent my miners to channel the last tiles of land between the moats and the river.

They walked right out onto the water to dig the channels, and that's when I noticed this river was just a brook. I'd plugged every security hole in every other direction, but the direction right in front of me has been wide open the whole time.

Oh well, I think this is going to be a forgiving embark anyway. The moats still filled up and my miners have had enough practice to dig the brook deeper in short order.

[rtg593]

Finding my embark had enough magnetite, hemetite, lignite, and marble on the first level I explored (z-5, no less) to deck out 20 axedorfs in full steel everything... And watching it burn to the first goblin seige, because I forgot to prepare my defenses in my rush to equip my army.